"Love or hate him, Trump has used military force less than any other president since Jimmy Carter."

[Markle]

Even David Brooks, well known Trump hater, is finding it more and more difficult to continue beating on the man who is turning this country around and is doing what he promised!

"Love or hate him, Trump has used military force less than any other president since Jimmy Carter."

Trump Has Made Us All Stupid
The decline of discourse in the anti-Trump echo chamber.
By David Brooks
Opinion Columnist

• Jan. 9, 2020

Donald Trump is impulse-driven, ignorant, narcissistic and intellectually dishonest. So you’d think that those of us in the anti-Trump camp would go out of our way to show we’re not like him — that we are judicious, informed, mature and reasonable.

But the events of the past week have shown that the anti-Trump echo chamber is becoming a mirror image of Trump himself — overwrought, uncalibrated and incapable of having an intelligent conversation about any complex policy problem.

For example, there’s a complex policy problem at the heart of this week’s Iran episode. Iran is not powerful because it has a strong economy or military. It is powerful because it sponsors militias across the Middle East, destabilizing regimes and spreading genocide and sectarian cleansing. Over the past few years those militias, orchestrated by Qassim Suleimani, have felt free to operate more in the open with greater destructive effect.

We’re not going to go in and destroy the militias. So how can we keep them in check so they don’t destabilize the region? That’s the hard problem — one that stymied past administrations.
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Love or hate him, Trump has used military force less than any other president since Jimmy Carter. When it comes to foreign policy, he is not like recent Republicans. He is, as my colleague Ross Douthat put it, a Jacksonian figure, wanting to get America out of foreign entanglements while lobbing a few long-distance attacks to ensure the crazy foreigners stick to killing one another and not us.
[...]
Opinion | Trump Has Made Us All Stupid

 

[imawhosure]

Even David Brooks, well known Trump hater, is finding it more and more difficult to continue beating on the man who is turning this country around and is doing what he promised!

"Love or hate him, Trump has used military force less than any other president since Jimmy Carter."

Trump Has Made Us All Stupid
The decline of discourse in the anti-Trump echo chamber.
By David Brooks
Opinion Columnist

• Jan. 9, 2020

Donald Trump is impulse-driven, ignorant, narcissistic and intellectually dishonest. So you’d think that those of us in the anti-Trump camp would go out of our way to show we’re not like him — that we are judicious, informed, mature and reasonable.

But the events of the past week have shown that the anti-Trump echo chamber is becoming a mirror image of Trump himself — overwrought, uncalibrated and incapable of having an intelligent conversation about any complex policy problem.

For example, there’s a complex policy problem at the heart of this week’s Iran episode. Iran is not powerful because it has a strong economy or military. It is powerful because it sponsors militias across the Middle East, destabilizing regimes and spreading genocide and sectarian cleansing. Over the past few years those militias, orchestrated by Qassim Suleimani, have felt free to operate more in the open with greater destructive effect.

We’re not going to go in and destroy the militias. So how can we keep them in check so they don’t destabilize the region? That’s the hard problem — one that stymied past administrations.
[...]
Love or hate him, Trump has used military force less than any other president since Jimmy Carter. When it comes to foreign policy, he is not like recent Republicans. He is, as my colleague Ross Douthat put it, a Jacksonian figure, wanting to get America out of foreign entanglements while lobbing a few long-distance attacks to ensure the crazy foreigners stick to killing one another and not us.
[...]
Opinion | Trump Has Made Us All Stupid

Geeze, wonder why this thread isn't at the top of the board?

Ummmmmmm, maybe because it doesn't fit the Lefty narrative/talking points!

What this thread PROVES above all else is------------------>the MSM wants to tell you A STORY, not THE STORY!

How many posters knew this? Well, of course you didn't, because it proves that Trump is a lesser warmonger than Obama, both Bush Presidents, and Clinton. We can't have that, now can we, lol!

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Libs hate that orange man is not starting more wars like the previous two buffoons.

 

[kyzr]

Every so often there is a journalist who accidentally tells the truth. Kudos to Mr. Brooks.